Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearing the above quoted unequivocal, politico-religious dicta, a militant partisan or a non-partisan might seek their source. He would find these statements in The Presbyterian Magazine. He would find that the author of the pronouncements is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, who, as moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.* occupies Presbyterianism's highest eminence...
...Walker's own pastorate is the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles. He is 66 years old and during his lifetime has been an increasingly potent advocate of Prohibition. In the long, well-considered, closely reasoned statement which he issued last week, he said: "More than 40 years ago I entered into the fight while a pastor in the South,* a section most conservative in the matter of mixing politics and religion. We were given the unqualified support of all good men, regardless of party, and no one ever intimated that we were doing anything more than our plain duty...
...things will pondering non-Presbyterians remember in considering Dr. Walker's pronouncements: 1) that the intellectual qualifications for entrance into the Presbyterian clergy are higher than those of many another church; 2) Presbyterians are proud of their traditionally (Scotch) sturdy individualism. Both points are illustrated in this case. Dr. Walker exhibited no Stratonian looseness; he made out a good case on a high plane. Nevertheless, Presbyterians will not all follow him sheeplike. Thus, three famed Presbyterians had already declared for Nominee Smith: Edward Stephen Harkness, Arthur Curtiss James, among the richest Presbyterians in the U. S., and Dr. Henry...
Perhaps an authority on the subject might be Will H. Hays, a man who has known the dominant political party of the U. S. from bottom to top; who is an Elk, a 32° Mason and an elder of a dominant U. S. church (Presbyterian) ; the man who reigns magisterially over a dominant U. S. industry (cinema). Mr. Hays helped open a "social club" for the cinema trade in Manhattan last week. New York's Mayor, trig, glib James John Walker, was also present. In the course of his speech, Mr. Hays indicated Mayor Walker, grew intense...
When urbane Dwight Raymond Meigs resigned his headmastership in 1922 Mr. Wendell became treasurer of The Hill School. Dr. Boyd Edwards, pastor of the Hillside Presbyterian Church, Orange, N. J., became headmaster...